NASCAR 08 ARTICLES

March 11, 2009 - Thanks to new Mortenex, a drug regimen from pharmaceutical giant DynaRac, zombies all around the world are slowly regaining higher brain functions. Many of us can now read, speak, operate heavy machinery, and draft state-level legislation. Since I have shown the most promise of the subjects in Test Batch 32-C, DynaRac has kindly loaned me to IGN for a week to help around the office as proof that integration between the living and the formerly expired is completely safe.

April 14, 2008 - Earlier this week Next-Gen.biz posted a story that detailed the Top 100 selling games of 2007. We at IGN are constantly getting shelled by viewers for our review scores of certain games and how those review scores impact sales. Some people complain that we're too nitpicky, others say that we're in the pockets of multi-million dollar publishing houses (a notion that is just as preposterous now as it has always been). We thought it would be a fun experiment to see if the proof was indeed in the pudding when it comes to the correlation between sales and review scores.

July 26, 2007 - EA's NASCAR series had become fairly robust on the last generation of consoles, but in the race to the current systems it has lost a lot of its horsepower. With the loss of core gameplay aspects like Total Team Control and a number of other play mechanics, poor visuals and spotty online play, NASCAR 08 is a far cry from what was already only a decent racing title.

June 22, 2007 - PS3 owners weren't as overcome with software as they thought they'd be this past spring, but the summer is a totally different story. With a number of high-profile and potentially excellent videogames headed our way over the next few months, the awaited "must own" PlayStation 3 era may finally be upon us. Highlighted below are most of the season's biggest titles, so be sure to look for them at your local retailer between the dual-21sts of June and September.

June 21, 2007 - There will be no redneck jokes, I repeat, no redneck jokes in this preview. Nor will we say the phrases "Rubbin' is racin'" or "Shake and bake!" And we'll try our hardest to refrain from making jokes about incessantly turning left, but no promises on that last one. The sport of NASCAR opens itself up to so many jokes in mainstream media. Just look at the clientele of the standard race and you'll understand. Toss in the fact that it's the most watched sport in the United States and the sport begins to draw too much attention for its own good.

June 18, 2007 - This year's NASCAR game from EA Sports finds the series in a year of rebuilding, but that's just fine for the game since it's a good time to introduce some changes -- the sport it follows is also seeing a big shift in the 2008 season, and the platform slate for NASCAR 08 has also broadened since this will be the first next-gen entry for the series. Some big new features are being added, and a brand new career structure is being introduced. At least one major feature has had to stay in pit row (the phenomenal Total Team Control, which will be playable in the PS2 version but not featured in the PS3 or Xbox 360 games), but the overall overhaul gives the development team at Tiburon a chance to nail down the essentials with the move to a next-gen engine.

June 1, 2007 - E3 died last year. Booth Babes cried, fanboys screamed and anyone who had ever attended the buffet of blasting stereos and bloated neon breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, "The Show" rose again.